jeenio: sorry for that, it's the second year in a row our supplier fails to understand what we actually mean with "still water" (although that is actually quite clear in germany...)
and it's kind of weird to read on the bottle "still water - carbonated".
next time my specification for them will be:
"water. WITHOUT THE FUCKING BUBBLES, BITCHES"

I wonder which criteria is used to order the compos in Partymeister - it would be much more convenient if they were sorted by compo time or something similar, so it's easier to figure out which compos have been voted on yet. Or even better, divide the list of compos into three lists, "unvoted, "partly voted", "completely voted", so that one knows where votes are still missing.

I know it's faux-pas to say anything critical of the stream, but I find it sad that the feed from the hall is cut out during compo shows. In earlier years of breakpoint we would hear what someone at the party would hear, and it was, I think, a lot more exciting, and made it worth watching live. Why has it been cut out in the recent years? (Ever since nvscene, basically?)

I imagine that maybe some aspies complained that the noise of the crowd reactions was interfering with the fidelity of the demo. To this, I have two responses: first, if you really care so much about fidelity, why not just wait an hour and download the demo from pouet and run the demo on your computer, and get 100% perfect fidelity instead of watching it on a stream? Because with the crowd feed cut out, I feel like I might as well just do that, and watch the demos at a more convenient time, instead of watching the stream. And second (and this is the part that I find particularly aspie (i.e. irrationally antisocial)), would you actually prefer to stay home from a demo party and watch the stream than to go to the party? Because if you were at the party, you'd still be "bothered" by all of that crowd noise.

Sure, I get that the people who work on the demos really work hard to perfect every little nuance of the music, but really, people don't go to parties to experience the demos as accurately as possible, and people don't watch the live stream for that reason either.

Here's just a reminder of how amazing it was to watch the stream in 2007: